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Orientalism by Edward W. Said
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Anthology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!' Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected- this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. F ...Show more
Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western La ...Show more
Power by Foucault, Michel
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-gro ...Show more
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this co ...Show more
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The story of a young English aristocrat, who - cut adrift by tragedy - is led by her husband's former mistress deep into the fervour, chaos and blood of the French revolution. Summer Will Show is a fearless and wildly entertaining tale of loss and daring self-discovery.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.